Oddly, this also makes them easier to torture, for it harks back to a time when the demand for live bodies to torture was as brisk as the market for Maine lobsters. Those perceived to be internal enemies could be placed on the rack in the public square, or burned at the stake, or much more likely, strung up from a tree in the middle of a Sunday afternoon picnic in any typical city south of the Mason-Dixon Line after the Civil war. Then public punishment, and the cutting off toes or ears as souvenirs, was seen as character building.
Chapter XVI: Painted Fire
"Well, humor is the great thing, the saving thing, after all." (Mark Twain)
The job of the satirist used to be that of an arsonist: to set fire to the hospitality tent of those spewing pompous self-righteous cant. Now it has been usurped by TV and neutered into gridiron dinners and celebrity roasts, and their extension, SNL.
H.L. Mencken once said that a society based on cash, self-interest and greed is not a society at all but a state of war. His comments certainly gives new meaning to the phrase "war on poverty, doesn't it?
Chapter XVII: Dies Irae
"Our ignorance of history makes us vilify our own era." (Gustave Flaubert)
Judge Bork is the original "angry white male." But somehow we can understand the source of Bork's rage: No one is listening to him. Why? Because they are all busy listening to Madonna and Dennis Rodman, Howard Stern, Louis Farrakhan and Snoop Doggy Dog. [It is just another case of Bork being "Borked" all over again!]
According to Judge Bork's reasoning, maybe like the Taliban, we just need to put a stop to all of this nonsense called liberty and equality?
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